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How Hemingway felt about fatherhood

  • Written by Verna Kale, Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University
imageHemingway and his eldest son, Bumby, pose in Havana harbor in 1933.Collection of David Meeker, Author provided

Ernest Hemingway was affectionately called “Papa,” but what kind of dad was he?

In my role as Associate Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project, I spend my time investigating the approximately 6,000 letters sent by Hemingway,...

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